A collection of eight interviews with participants in the Mississippi civil rights movement. The people interviewed discuss how they came to participate in the civil rights movement, their various activities, including voter registration, Freedom...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Richard Wallmeyer. Two uniformed cleaning women are working in a large room in Paris. The Eiffel Tower is seen through the window, and snow is falling outside. One woman is vacuuming the...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Eddie Germano. Lyndon Johnson is shown dressed as an Indian chief sitting in front of a tipi. A small man stands before Johnson with two signs, "Tax restorations" and "Tax cuts." Johnson has...

Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 24, 1972 with Dr. William Penn Davis at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Davis was born in Union County, Mississippi on August 5, 1903. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mississippi College in...

A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Three pyramids are shown in this cartoon, set in Egypt, one in the foreground and two in the distance. The near pyramid is flattened on top and on it is a powder keg for a table...

Oral history.; Interview with Annie Lee Stewart conducted on March 22, 2000. Annie Lee Stewart was born in Grenada County, Mississippi in 1927 and grew up on the land that her parents sharecropped. Stewart joined the movement for civil rights after...

Oral history.; Viola Brown Sanders was born in Sidon, Mississippi, on February 21, 1921. After Miss Sanders finished her education, she taught school for two years in Glen Allan, Mississippi. In 1943, Miss Sanders joined the United States Navy...

Oral history.; Interview conducted with Chrysteen Flynt. Effie Chrysteen Flynt was born in November 1910 in D’Lo, MS to John Anselum Warren Sr. and Effie Bowman Warren. Her parents owned the D’Lo Mercantile Company until it burned down. Shortly...

Oral history.; Two interviews conducted with Clarence Magee. The first interview takes place on November 30, 2012. The second interview takes place on September 22, 1997 and was continued on February 09, 1998. Magee was born May 14, 1932. He was...

Oral history.; Interview conducted with Dolphus Weary. Reverend Dolhpus Weary was born to Albert and Lucille Granderson Weary in Sandy Hook, MS in August 1946. Both of Weary’s parents had children from previous marriages, as well as children from...

A collection of interviews with African Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...

A collection of interviews with African Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...

Oral history.; Interview conducted September 19, 2003 in Holly Springs, Mississippi. Kunstler-Goldman was born in Tennessee and raised in New York, the daughter of prominent civil rights attorney, William Kunstler. Kunstler-Goldman recognized...

Oral history.; Interview conducted on December 14, 1972 with Mr. Percy Greene at his office in Jackson, Mississippi. Greene was born on September 7, 1897 in Jackson, Mississippi and died on April 16, 1977. He was very active in the civil rights...

Oral history.; Interview conducted on March 19, 1975 with Otho Monroe (born 1912). Mr. Monroe was superintendent of the Senatobia School District from 1949 until 1968, when he resigned in protest of school desegregation.

Oral history.; Interview conducted on September 17, 1980 with the Honorable Tony Byrne, former mayor of Natchez, Mississippi at his office in the Natchez City Hall. Byrne was born on May 18, 1936 in Natchez, Mississippi. He attended Mississippi...

Oral history.; An interview conducted on June 8, 1999 with Umoja Kwanguvu (born 1925). Umoja Kwanguvu, born William Jones, grew up in Birmingham, Alabama in the 1940s and 1950s, he served briefly in the Army and Air Force before earning his...

Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 21, 2007 with Leroy Johnson, longtime Pascagoula, MS, resident, who describes his experience there during Hurricane Katrina and the devastation it wrought on the community and his personal life.